Albertville council votes to let Municipal Utility Board incorporate

A resolution that passed unanimously at Monday’s regular meeting of the Albertville City Council will allow the Municipal Utility Board to incorporate.

By Kerry YencerTimes Correspondent

A resolution that passed unanimously at Monday’s regular meeting of the Albertville City Council will allow the Municipal Utility Board to incorporate.The purpose of incorporation is to enable the city to remove MUB’s debt from its books. That will allow MUB to refinance about $8 million at a lower rate. The city is working with the school board in similar manner to take another $9 million off its books and again save through better financing.The city is asking the local delegation to present legislation repealing a 1923 act so that such action may be taken.The council passed two ordinances and introduced nine others that would amend current ordinances, most of them involving the sanitation department.Council president Nathan Broadhurst said the current administration has taken a stance to introduce ordinances at one meeting, then to take action at the next. In the past, most ordinances have been introduced, then passed after a suspension of the rules. Broadhurst said in an attempt to be more transparent, the new policy has been adopted so citizens can have time to review the ordinances.A financial ordinance introduced would establish reserves for the general fund and capital improvements. Councilman Ben McGowan said the general fund reserve would be about $284,000. Capital improvements reserves would total nearly $800,000, according to Broadhurst.Ordinances approved dissolve the recreation board and Civitan Park Advisory Board.Most of the other ordinances deal with sanitation. They include garbage containers, commercial pick-up, dumping, litter, forms no longer in use, dangerous structures, conditions and accessory buildings and definitions of accessory buildings.

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